WordPress 2.8.1 is Out and Available to Download

After release of WordPress 2.8 its first update WordPress 2.8.1 which has fixed lot of bug. Beta of 2.8.1 was available from few days back, now it officially available for download and every WordPress 2.8 user must upgrade there blog to 2.8.1.

There was a problem on admin page that certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked. To avoid these types of threats you must upgrade to WordPress 2.8.1.

There are many more bug fixed which you can see here. Some of the improvements are,

Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change.
Dashboard memory usage is reduced.  Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.
The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.
A problem where the rich text editor wasn’t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.
Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.
Translation of role names fixed.
wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title.
Upload error messages are now correctly reported.
Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed.
Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed.
SSH2 filesystem requirements updated.
Switched back to curl as the default transport.
Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload.
Stricter inline style sanitization.
Stricter menu security.
Disabled code highlighting due to browser incompatibilities.
RTL layout fixes.

Download WordPress 2.8.1